Need an Am aircraft monitoring antenna

I want to pick up local Air traffic which is AM. I think this is 108 - 136 MHZ. What kind of antenna is recommended?

I'm using an AOR 8200 MK3, so BNC is preferred.

Thanks

the modulation mode, AM makes no difference..you just need a good airband antenna.

used one of these for years....although it is modeled to only go to 125mhz, it never failed me receiving any signal in the aircraft band...

REGULAR Duck Aircraft Band 118 - 125 MHZ

Thanks - I'm ordering one now.

Had one of those a few years back and found it to be a good antenna for the aircraft band. It'll go a little lower and a little higher as well. For the price you won't be dissatisfied.

A simple one quarter wave whip antenna works very well.

A 23 inch piece of wire that will fit in a BNC connector to put on your scanner.

And the "23 inch piece of wire" does not care if it is AM, FM, CW, SSB or even P25 or DMR.

Discones make excellent airband antennas. Maybe that's why you see so many on control towers, hangars, and RCO sites.

I have a real genuine 100% TSO'd emergency locator whip antenna that's designed to be mounted on an aircraft skin and it's 23 and 3/8" long - design centre I suppose was 121.5MHz but I've even used on the ham 2m band and worked just OK there! Mounted on a magnetron magnet and a bit of bent galvanised steel plate.

Portable, base, or mobile?

If you are in an rf-dense environment, where things like NOAA, 152mhz pagers, FM broadcast etc causes the front-end of your scanner to desense, then I'd heartily recommend using a duck from the aviation industry itself:

ICOM FA-BO2AR

This bnc mount duck is what is used on many of their commercial aviation line. The key is that it is narrowband for just aviation only.

When you test one of these against other antennas, marvel at the LOSS of broadcast, pager, NOAA and other out of band reception that you don't want when doing more serious portable aviation monitoring.